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Disaster Flashcards

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[Categories of biological agents]
-Low mortality rate
-require specific enhancements of diagnostic capacity and enhanced disease survelliance
- result in moderate and low mortality rates
-moderately easy to disseminate

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Category B

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[Categories of biological agents]
-require a special action of public health preparedness
-promote public panic and social disruption
-result in high mortality rates and have the potential for major public health impact
-highest risks because the of ease of dissemination or transmission from person to person

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CATEGORY A

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[Categories of biological agents]
-major health impact
-have the potential for high morbidity and mortality rates
-Ease of production and dissemination
-emerging pathogens that could be enginereed for mass dissemination because of availability

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CATEGORY C

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Small pox

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Category A

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Brucellosis

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Category B

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Hantavirus
Nipah virus
Yellow fever virus

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Category C

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Tick borne encephalitis

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Category C

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Drug resistant TB

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Category C

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Typhus fever

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Category B

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Anthrax
plageu

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Category A

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Viral hemorrhagic fevers

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Category A

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Tularemia

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Category A

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Botulinum toxin

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Category A

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14
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Water safety threats
Epsilon Toxin
Q fever

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Category B

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Adaptation of professional nursing skills in recognizing and meeting the nursing physical and emotional needs resulting from disaster

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Disaster nursing

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Catastrophic event that results on casualties that overwhelm the healthcare resources in that community and may result in a sudden unanticipated surge of a change in standards of care and a need to allocate sarce resources

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HEALTH DISASTER

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Refers to the potential threat to humans and their welfare

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HAZARD

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It presents the probability of the occurence of a disaster caused by natural phenomena, failure of man made sources of energy or human activity

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Hazard

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Actual exposure of something of human value. Often measured as the produxt of probability and loss

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Risk

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Probability of harmful consequences or expected losses resulting from interactions between natural or human induced haxards and vulnerable conditions

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Risk

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21
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Equation of risk

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Risk=hazard x vunerability

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It is determined by physical, social, ecomnomic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual

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Vulnerability

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Combination of al strengths and resources available within the community, society or organization that can reduce the level of risk, or the effects of a disaster

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Capacity

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Tor F: tbere is no such thing as natural disasters only natural hazards

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TRUE

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Risk is the combination of

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Hazard, exposure and vulnerability

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Internal disaster

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Disruption of normal hospital function due to injuries or deaths of hospital personnel or damage to the facility

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External disaster

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Do not affect the hospital infrastructure but tax hospital resources due to number of patients or type of injuries

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Airbursts
Space weather
Shockwave events

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Extraterrestrial disaster

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Extreme changes in temperature
Storm
Fog
Ice frost

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Meteorological disaster

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Drought
Glacial lake
Wildfire
Land fire
Forest fire

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Climatological disaster

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Floods
Ice jam
Landslides
Avalanche
Debris
Rock fall
Wave action

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Hydrological disaster

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Epidemic
Insect infestation
Animal accidents

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Biological disaster

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Solod earth
-earthquake
-dry mass
-ash fall
-lahar
-pyroclastic flow
-lava flow

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Geophysical disaster

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Situation here population suffer.
Civil war
Political conflict

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Complex human emergencies

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Unplanned release of nuclear energy
And fires or explosions
-fuel, chemicals or nuclear materials

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Technological diaster

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Natural human generated disaster that triggered a secondary diasater

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Synergistic Disaster

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Terror by a state

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Mass terror

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Attack on a head of state or a ruling elite

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Dynastic assasination

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Placing of explosives where people gather to destroy whoever happens to be there

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Random terror

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Focus random terror is Placing explosives to where

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Significant agents of oppresion are likely to gather

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Directed solely against the ruling government as a part of a broad revolutionary strategic plan

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Tactical terror

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Producing injury or death

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-nerve agents (anticholinesterases)
-blood agents (cyanogens)
-blister agents (vesicants)
-lung damaging agents (choking agents)

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Producing temporary effects

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-stimulants
-psychedelics
-drpressants
-deliriants

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Deliberate releas of viruses, bacteria and other germs to cause illness or death

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Bioterrorism

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Nuclear accident on march 11 2011
After an earthquake a 15m tsunami disabled the power supply

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Fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster

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Particles/elemnts released during fukushima daiichi

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Iodine-8 years of half life
Caesium-30 “
Tritium-12 “

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Significant elements released by chernobyl 1986

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Iodine-8 days of half life
Strontium-29 “
Caesium-30 “

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Steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reacfor core into the environment

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Chernobyl disaster

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Occur directly pressure from the pressure wave of the blast

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Primary injury

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Occure being struck by flying objects feom the blast

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Secondary injury

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Occurs when victims are displaced from a location and strike other objects or surfaces

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Tertiary injury

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Burns, inhalation injuries, toxic exposures, and traumatic injuries from structural collapse

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Quarternary

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Blunt injury

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Secondary injury

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Eye rupture
Abdominal hemorrhage and perfirtation
Concussion (TBI) with no physical signs of head injury

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Primary injury

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Fracture and traumatic amputation
Closed and open brain injury

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Tertiary

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Proactive planning efforts designed to structure the disaster response prior to its occurence

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Preparedness phase

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Disaster planning that enco.passes evaluating potential vulnerabilities and the prospensity for a disaster to occur

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Preparedness phase

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Measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of a disaster by attempting to limit its impact on human health, community function and economic infrastructure

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Mitigation phase

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Steps taken to lessen the impact of a diaster should be one occur and can be considered as prevention measures

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Mitigation phase

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Focuses on emergency relief

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Response phase

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Providing first aid

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Response phase

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Minimizing and restoring damaged systems such as communications ans transportation

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Response phase

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Providing care and basic life requirements and or necessities

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Response phase

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ICS

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Incident command system

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Its is routinely practiced and updated as needed

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ICS

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Rebuild and repair damaged building mental health interventions

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Recovery phase

67
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Phase in planninga nd response that Receives Least attention

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Evaluation phase

68
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Determine in the evaluation the ff:

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-what worked
-what did not work
-what specific problems issues and challenges were identified

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